Quotes About Manners

It's good to see you, little one." He (Uncle Eddie) scanned her short skirt. "I only wish I were not seeing quite so much of you.

To who?" Bex asked. " Rebecca !" her mother snapped. "Sorry." Bex shrugged. "To whom ," she corrected herself, even though I highly doubted that had been her mother's point.

Easy there," Zach said when I stumbled into him. "Now's probably not the time to get handsy. You might want to control yourself.

Fazla seçeneÄŸi yoktu; bu yüzden her h?rs?z?n istediÄŸini alabilmek için kulland??? en eski ve güvenilir metodu kullanmaya karar verdi: Kibarca istemek. (syf. 20)

Always wipe your mouth before you take a drink

Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'

Just because you're sitting at a poker table with some guy doesn't give him the right to say whatever the hell he wants about the way you live your life.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were impeccably behaved. It's only the gutter snipes who leave their lipstick on the studio floor - and that's just the men.

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

I want my kids to be polite and respectful, stand on their own two feet.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.

What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.

It's important to be courteous; it has to be. I was raised very well by my parents, so it's about being polite and courteous.